Tag: Jorge O. Elorza
Providence council moves to fill contested police community relations job
PROVIDENCE – The stalemate between Mayor Jorge O. Elorza’s office and the City Council over a controversial police appointment appears to have ended.
Elorza’s original...
Providence, unionized public workers reach agreement on 3-year pact
PROVIDENCE – The labor union that represents about 800 city employees has agreed to a three-year contract that calls for wage increases of more...
Providence seeks proposals to expand behavioral health crisis response program
PROVIDENCE – City officials are seeking ideas to expand Providence’s behavioral health crisis response program.
A request for proposals, announced March 22, asks respondents to...
Providence City Council approves proposed firefighters contract
PROVIDENCE – City firefighters would get 4% annual raises in exchange for doubling their contributions toward the city pension fund under a proposed five-year...
Pinto named Providence’s 1st director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza Wednesday named Silas Pinto as the city’s first director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Pinto previously served as...
PBN officially debuts 2022 Book of Lists at Graduate Providence
PROVIDENCE – Approximately 200 local business individuals gathered Thursday at the Graduate Providence to network with one another during Providence Business News’ 2022 Book...
Providence ends FY 21 with $3.7M surplus
PROVIDENCE – The capital city ended fiscal 2021 $3.7 million in the black, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza announced on Monday.
The year-end audit results also...
Providence records $3.7M surplus in fiscal 2021
PROVIDENCE – The city ended fiscal 2021 $3.68 million in the black, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza announced on Monday.
Results of the latest fiscal year...
63 Providence workers still unvaccinated, facing suspension without pay
PROVIDENCE - Sixty-three Providence city workers still haven’t gotten the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, even with the extra three-and-a-half weeks given since the original Jan....
Ready to spend: R.I. cities, towns have differing ideas about how...
The historic Conimicut Shoal Lighthouse at the mouth of the Providence River is far from being the shining beacon it once was, but Warwick...
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